ISAAC NEWTON - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in ___________________. Using the "old" Julian calendar, Newton's birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642.

Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a well-to-do minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Newton with his _________________.

sister

Father

maternal grandmother

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Select the correct definition for "monotonous".

a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

When Newton arrived at Cambridge, the ___________________________ was already in full force.

Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

maternal grandmother

unaccredited manuscript

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

It was during this time that Newton kept a second set of notes, entitled ____________________________ ("Certain Philosophical Questions").

unaccredited manuscript

maternal grandmother

"Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In 1665, the ________________ that was ravaging Europe had come to Cambridge, forcing the university to close.

Scientific Revolution of the 17th century

"Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

bubonic plague

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton received his Master of Arts degree in 1669, before he was ___.

30

27

21

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Select the correct definition for "treatise".

a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.

dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest.

"Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae"

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In June 1669, Barrow shared the _______________ with British mathematician John Collins.

unaccredited manuscript

book

newspaper

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In August 1669, Barrow identified its author to Collins as "_____________ ... very young ... but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency in these things."

Mr. Newton

Mr. Collins

Mr. Barrow

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton theorized that white light was a composite of all colors of the spectrum, and that light was composed of particles.

True

False

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton's first major public scientific achievement was designing and constructing a _______________ in 1668.

Principia

gravity

reflecting telescope

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The Royal Society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope in 1671, and the organization's interest encouraged Newton to publish his notes on light, optics and color in 1672. These notes were later published as part of Newton's Opticks

True

False

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The method of infinitesimal calculus, is the foundation for his theory of light and color, and the laws of planetary motion—that eventually led to the publication of his physics book Principia and his theory of gravity.

True

False

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In ___________, following 18 months of intense and effectively nonstop work, Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), most often known as Principia.

1998

1687

891

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

____________ is said to be the single most influential book on physics and possibly all of science. Its publication immediately raised Newton to international prominence.

reflecting telescope

gravity

Principia

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton’s law of universal gravitation states that two objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction that’s proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.

True

False

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In Newton's account, ____________ kept the universe balanced, made it work, and brought heaven and Earth together in one great equation.

gravity

reflecting telescope

Principia

19.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Newton lived from ________ to ___________.

1253 to 1353

1643 to 1727

1981 to 2021

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

While Newton theorized that light was composed of waves, Hooke believed it was composed of particles.

True

False

21.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Force is equal to mass times acceleration, and a change in motion (i.e., change in speed) is proportional to the force applied.

First Law

Second Law

Third Law

22.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

A stationary body will stay stationary unless an external force is applied to it.

First Law

Second Law

Third Law

23.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

First Law

Second Law

Third Law

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